Horizon 2020 offers the EU a unique opportunity to lead the world in truly groundbreaking health research—an area of science that has struggled to make progress on important diseases such as cancer, asthma and degenerative neurological disorders. These difficulties are attributable in large part to the limitations of research that uses mice and other animals as “models” for human biology.

HSI received £40,000 for being selected to win in the lobbying category for leadership of a successful two-year campaign that dramatically reduced animal-testing requirements under Europe’s new regulations for non-food pesticides.

HSI is calling for the EU and the US to form a groundbreaking transatlantic research partnership to bolster the technology revolution taking place in pharmaceutical and chemical safety testing using cutting-edge non-animal techniques.

A resolution calling for research institutions around the world to develop and publicize strategies to replace, reduce and refine their use of animals in experimentation was presented for endorsement to attendees at the 8th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences.

Dr. Jane Goodall joined HSI UK in urging the British government to stand firm and maintain its current support for not using great apes in research when the new European Union animal experiments directive is transposed into national legislation.

HSI Europe reacted strongly following a meeting with European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy John Dalli, who revealed that he would not commit to supporting a legislative ban on selling animal-tested cosmetics.

In September 2010, HSI welcomed final adoption of a new EU law on animal experiments as a boost for animal welfare and the development of humane alternatives, but warned that to make meaningful improvements, member states would have to rigorously enforce the new rules.

HSI praised Members of the European Parliament’s Environment Committee for taking important steps to curb biocide regulations that contain some of the most “excessive and archaic” animal test requirements in EU law.

In late October 2009, the world's first cyber-protest for animals in laboratories was presented to Members of Parliament at the Parliamentary Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals meeting to discuss the revision of the EU animal experiments law, Directive 86/609.

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